Relationships between seafood consumption during pregnancy and childhood and neurocognitive development: two systematic reviews.

Maternal prenatal nutrition and nutrition during childhood are crucial factors in a child's neurodevelopment, and failure to provide adequate amounts of key nutrients at critical periods may result in lifelong impairment in cognitive development and mental health that cannot be corrected by subsequent repletion of nutrients. Seafood is a rich source of key nutrients that are biologically essential for optimal fetal and child neurodevelopment including iodine, vitamin B12, iron, vitamin D, zinc, manganese and highly unsaturated omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids [1].

Source: Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids - October 10, 2019 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: CAPT Joseph R. Hibbeln, Philip Spiller, J. Thomas Brenna, Jean Golding, Bruce J. Holub, William S. Harris, Penny Kris-Etherton, Bill Lands, Sonja L. Connor, Gary Myers, J.J. Strain, Michael A Crawford, Susan E. Carlson Source Type: research